> From: Richard Kimberly Heck [rikih...@lyx.org] Sent: 15 September 2018 12:12 To: Bravington, Mark (Data61, Hobart); lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: temporarily disable 3-pass processing of citations/bibliography
On 8/13/18 8:21 PM, mark.braving...@data61.csiro.au wrote: > > Including citations/references, or even telling Lyx that they *might* be > > used (see below), slows down PDF preview quite a bit, ie > > Document->View(PDF). Is there a way to temporarily turn off the 3-pass > > system (~3 calls to pdflatex interspersed by calls to biber or bibtex)? Of > > course, it's then fine for all citations to appear as "labels" or [?] . <<snipped by MVB>>> > Not sure how helpful this is now: But you could export to LaTeX and run > everything else manually. > Riki Aha! Armed with that hint, I was able to define a Format and Converter that give "one-pass-only" PDFs; pig-ugly refs, no biblio, but very quick! The Format I called "PDF (nobib)" and it mimicks Lyx's existing "PDF (pdflatex)" Format. The Converter looks exactly like Lyx's "Latex (pdf) -> PDF (latex)" but obviously ends " ... -> PDF (nobib)" instead. The only change needed to the Converter was to clear the "Extra flags" field. This seems to do what I want (I think--- I am no expert on La/tex, and have not tested beyond a basic case). It might be worth adding this as a built-in format and converter (or I may be the only person who sees the speed as a problem...). The only and very minor issue is that, when defining the new Format, I cannot select "pdfview" as the Viewer--- which is what Lyx uses for all other PDF outputs. instead, I had to choose "custom" and then type the name of my viewer (Sumatra) into a box. No big deal, obvs. Thanks Mark
